Improvement in combined cotton scraper and cultivator



Patented June 5,1877.

ATTBBNEYS.

ILPEYERS, FNOTO-UYHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON n C UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGFtMALAOHIAH ROBY, OF KDSGIUSKO, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED COTTON SCRAPER AND CULTIVATOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 191,613, dated June 5,i877 application filed April 30, 1877.

To all whom it mayconeern:

Be it known that I, Col. MALAOHIAH ROBY of Kosciusko, in the county ofAttala and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Combined Cotton Scraper and Cultivator, of which thefollowin g is a specification:

Figure 1 is a top view of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a side view ofthe same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This machine is so constructed as to bar off and dirt or cultivatecotton-plants at one operation; and the invention relates to theconstruction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described andclaimed.

A is the center or main beam, to the forward end of which the draft isattached. To the beam A, a little in the rear of its forward end, isattached the middle part of the crossbar B, in which are formed a numberof holes to receive the hooks or clevises by which the forward ends ofthe side beams O are secured to said cross-bar.

To the rear end of the main beam A is attached the middle part of across-bar, D, to which the rear ends of the side beams O are socured bya bow and yoke, E, passed around them diagonally, as shown in Figs. 1and 2, and which are tightened, when adjusted in place, by nuts screwedupon the ends of the bows.

F are two scrapers, which are secured to two standards, G. The standardsG are secured to the inner sides of the forward parts of the inner sidebeams C by bands H passed around said beams (J, and diagonally aroundsaid standards G, and tightened in place by wedges or other suitablemeans, so that the scrapers can be readily adjusted to work deeper orshallower in the ground, and easily detached when not required i'or use.

I are the cultivating plows or dirters, the standards J of which areattached to the side beams O, the plows and standards of the inner sidebeams being placed in advance of those attached to the outer side beams,as shown in Fig. 1.

K are the handles, the forward ends of which are attached to the centerbeam A a little in the rear of the cross-bar B. The handles K areconnected by one or more rounds, k, and are supported by a standard, L,the lower end of which is attached to the central beam A, and to theupper end of which is attached the round k.

When the machine is to he used as a cultivator, the scrapers F G aredetached, and may be replaced by cultivating-plows.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combination of the cross-bars B D, the side beamsO and their plows and standards, the bows and yokes E, the scrapers F G,and the bands 11 with each other and with the central beam A,substantially as herein shown and described.

M. ROBY.

Witnesses:

O. M. BROOKE, J; (J. ASHLEY.

